stop chewing the inside of my mouth

Today is the worst day I have had in years. My lips hurt from the wierd positions I put them in to get to good places. My jaw hurts from all the biting. I am a mess. As we speak I have a pencil in my mouth to keep me from doing it. I am pathetic.

since my breakup with my boyfriend i have been a huge ball of stress – i have been taking it out on the inside of my mouth and it is starting to hurt really badly! all i want to do is stop and i can’t do it!

Not so good. This is one of my new years resolutions – but so far I have completely failed at it. It is time to quit. I have been doing it for 14 years now. Thats too long. I don’t know how to quit though. I tried gum, mints, intense concentration – nothing is working. I really don’t want to adopt another bad habbit just to quit this one!

Today is not the day I will quit. I am doing badly already at it is 11am. I think I do this more than I think because after I put this on my list I have become aware of me doing it without even knowing. I will catch myself doing it and think “gee when did that start” so thats bad. I am gonna try to find something to deter me from doing it – seems like this is going to be a long, winding road to achieve this goal.

I was 10. That is about 14 years I have been chewing my mouth. I am sure it has got to cause cancer or something with all that constant irritation. I went to the dentist not too long ago and they laughed cause i explained to them that I would push my mouth around in order to get the really hard to reach places. So the dentist had no advice. . . I hope that I can kick this cause it makes me look ridiculous and it hurts a lot of the time.